Rescatux 0.73 supports booting from UEFI Secure Boot and traditional BIOS. Both amd64 and 686 systems are supported.
Rescatux includes Rescapp, a graphical rescue tool that will assist users to regain access to a computer that has become non-bootable among many other features.
GNU/Linux options
Change Gnu/Linux Password : Change a user's password
File System Check (Forced Fix) : File System Check (Forced Fix)
Easy GNU/Linux Boot Fix : Fsck partition, update grub menues, restore GRUB into the MBR and order UEFI entries
Restore Grub : Restore GRUB into the MBR
Regenerate sudoers file : Define a new sudoers file
UEFI Partition Status : Check UEFI partition status
Check UEFI Boot : Check if Rescatux has boot in UEFI mode
Create UEFI Boot Entry : Create a new UEFI Boot entry out of your EFI files
Change UEFI Boot Order : Change UEFI Boot order
Reinstall Microsoft Windows UEFI : Reinstall Microsoft Windows UEFI boot entries
Fake Microsoft Windows UEFI : Fake Microsoft Windows UEFI boot entry
Hide Microsoft Windows UEFI : Hide Microsoft Windows UEFI boot entry and define default fallback one.
Windows password and role related options
Easy Windows Admin : Promote to Admin, Reset Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven) password and unlock user
Reset Windows password : Reset Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven,10) password
Promote Windows user to Admin : Promote Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven,10) user to Administrator
Unlock Windows user : Unlock Windows (NT,200x,XP,Vista,Seven,10) user
Other options
Boot Info Script : Boot Information Script
Check bios_grub partition on GPT : Check if there is a bios_grub partition on a GPT disk
Gptsync : Create an hybrid MBR inside a GPT partition (Gptsync)
Recompute Hybrid GPT/MBR CHS : Recompute CHS values on an hybrid GPT/MBR partitiont table
Restore Windows MBR : Restore generic MBR code so that Windows boots again
System Info Script (Inxi) : System Info Script (Inxi)
Support features
Chat : Get online human help (chat)
Help : Help on using Rescapp
Share log : Share Rescatux logs. It generates a pastebin in paste.debian.net and shows it to you so that you can copy and paste the url in the chat.
Share log on forum : Share Rescatux logs on a forum. It generates a temporary file ready to copy and paste on your favourite forum (ubuntuforums.org and others).
Show log : Show Rescatux logs so that you can ask help and supporters can know what happens when you run Rescatux options
Web : Access online Rescatux website
External tools Note: These features are just launchers of external tools and are not enforced. If your system does not have them installed they won't work.
Gparted : GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions.
Testdisk : Testdisk is a text wizard drive program for rescuing disks, partitions, and files.
Photorec : Photorec is a text wizard drive program for rescuing files. Despite its name it recovers much more files than photo files.
